February 2012
9 posts
1 tag
2 tags
7 tags
4 tags
It's Bon Iver. NOT Bonny Bear. It is real music.... →
So, Bon Iver won Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards (despite ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ being released in 2008) and Best Alternative Album (well deserved). This victory was met with mainstream outrage and confusion in the US, reminiscent to Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs Album of the Year win in 2011.
This tumblr brings you the most entertaining and ignorant tweets. Amusing read.
5 tags
Active Child - Live at East Brunswick Club
Pat Grossi’s voice tugs on my heartstrings every time I hear an Active Child song. I remember the first time I heard Hangin’ On, it was love on first listen, yet it broke my heart at the same time. The lyrics resonate with me so well.
You Are All I See had a lot of plays towards the end of 2011, I would even go as far as dubbing it the album of 2011 for me. Choir vocals, synths, harp...
16 tags
The Laneway Post
It was THE second chance. After the fiasco that was henceforth known as Melbourne Laneway 2009 I swore to never purchase tickets to St Jerome’s Laneway Festival again. But then the lineup for 2012 was announced and it was too good to say no to. So I caved, I thought it might have been time to forgive and forget and give them another chance, forked out the 140 AUD.
So we went to Footscray...
4 tags
8 tags
This week's round-up
M83 - Thursday 2 February 2011
Prince Bandroom
The decision to go to the M83 Laneway sideshow was an impulsive one, but I was glad I went. I was a bit late to the M83 party, somewhere in between Saturday = Youth and before Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming I became a convert. At the show it was evident why M83 always had a cult following from the very beginning (yes, those people can actually say...
